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SQL Server Management Studio – Using Row_Number, Partition, and filtering on Row_number

Let’s say you want to retrieve only the first row of each question type from the question type table. The 3rd SQL statement will give you your results, but let’s explain each of 3 SQL statements.

select RowNumber, question_type 
 from
   

SQL Server Management Studio – Retrieve one child row regardless of number of grand children from another child table with or without filtering

Let’s say you want to report on each child row, but you only want to see one row based on a grand child row with filtering on the grand child row. The following SQL will not work, but instead gets …

SQL Server Management Studio – Retrieve one parent row regardless of number of children when filtering on children

Let’s say you want to report on each parent row, but must join a child row to do filtering on the child row, but you only want to return one row per parent. The following SQL will not work, but …

Visual Studio Community Edition 2017 – Stop debugger when browser windows is closed, close browser when debugging stops

If you want to test threading that will still perform after closing down your browser, you need to still have the debugger running. In order to do that, you need to uncheck the box in the Tools/Options/Web Projects section that states:Stop debugger when browser windows is closed, close browser when debugging stops.

MVC 5 – Third Party Date Picker that works in IE

First, send back the browser type from the controller to the browser.

ViewBag.Browser = Request.Browser.Browser; 

Add the following javascript:

 
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery/latest/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/momentjs/latest/moment.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/
npm/daterangepicker/daterangepicker.min.js
"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.

MVC 5 – How to Display a PDF in a View

Assuming that you have a PDF in your controller as a byte array, add the following code to convert the data to a base64 string and send to your view.

string imageBase64Data = Convert.ToBase64String(results);
string imageDataURL = string.Format("data:application/pdf;base64,{0}", imageBase64Data);
ViewBag.ImageData